ONE SERVICE I WANTED TO SHOWCASE
TODAY IS THE AZURE SPEECH SERVICE.
NOT ONLY IS THE SPEECH SERVICE
GETTING BETTER AND BETTER WHEN IT
COMES TO SPEECH RECOGNITION, IN FACT WHAT YOU’LL SEE IN THIS
DEMO, IS EVEN FOR COMMODITY HARDWARE, TO REPLACE ANY MICROARRAY
SETUP SO THAT YOUR SPEECH
RECOGNITION IS WORD
CLASS.
THE MOST INTERESTING THING WHEN YOU
COMBINE SPEECH RECOGNITION WITH
LANGUAGE MODELS THAT ARE SPECIFIC TO YOUR ORGANIZATIONAL
DATA, YOU CAN START PICKING UP
ALL THE JARGON.
SO IMAGINE A TRANSCRIPT THAT GETS
CREATED THAT HAS THE ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND THE LOCAL JARGON THAT'S
SPECIFIC TO YOUR ORGANIZATION, YOUR
INDUSTRY, THAT WAY MAKING THE TRANSCRIPT THAT MUCH MORE
USEFUL.
LET'S THROW IT TO OUR TEAM OUT
ON THE GALLERY TO
SHOW YOU SPEECH TRANSLATION AND TRIPS.
THE PROTOTYPE DEVICE YOU CONNECTED TO A
CLOUD SERVICE THAT PROVIDED LIVE
TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION.
WE ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE TODAY THAT
WE'RE MAKING THE CONVERSATIONS
TRANSCRIPTION CAPABILITY WITHIN AZURE SPEECH SERVICES AVAILABLE AS A PREVIEW
RELEASE.
COME ON, LET ME SHOW YOU.
YOU MIGHT ALSO REMEMBER THIS
HARDWARE FROM LAST YEAR, WHICH
WE'RE MAKING AVAILABLE AS DEVELOPER
DEVICE KIT.
TODAY, MY COLLEAGUES AND I ARE
GOING TO GIVE YOU A DEMO OF NEW RESEARCH THAT WE BELIEVE WILL MAKE
MEETING TRANSCRIPTIONS MORE EASILY AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE IN THE
FUTURE.
WE ARE GOING TO SHOW YOU THIS DEMO
USING JUST THE MICROPHONES BUILT INTO
THIS LAPTOP AND THESE TWO SMARTPHONES WE HAVE IN FRONT OF US.
WITH THESE, WE
CREATE A MICROPHONE ARRAY IN THE CLOUD
THAT ENABLES AZURE SPEECH SERVICES
TO PROVIDE
ACCURATE, IN-PERSON MEETING
TRANSCRIPTIONS EVEN WITHOUT A SPECIAL MEETING DEVICE.
>> ALSO, YOU WILL NOTICE THAT I DIDN'T BRING MY PHONE, BUT IT
CAN STILL RECOGNIZE MY VOICE AND CORRECTLY IDENTIFY ME, BECAUSE I'VE
GIVEN IT PERMISSION TO USE MY VOICEPRINT
TO TRANSCRIBE WHAT I SAY.
THE SECOND THING WE'RE GOING TO
SHOW YOU IS THAT THE LANGUAGE
MODEL OF THE AZURE SPEECH SERVICE CAN BE TRAINED ON THE
DATA IN YOUR COMPANY'S MICROSOFT 365 TENANT SO IT CAN LEARN THE
UNIQUE VOCABULARY OF YOUR
INDUSTRY OR COMPANY.
THIS IS AVAILABLE IN PRIVATE
PREVIEW.
SO BASICALLY, FOR THE NEXT TWO MINUTES,
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A RAP BATTLE OF
SORTS.
BUT FOR ALL OF US GEEKS HERE IN THE
ROOM.
HEIKO IS A PRINCIPAL PM ON THE
SPEECH TEAM AND HE'S GOING TO GIVE
US AN EXAMPLE OF SOME DEV SPEAK.
YUSEF IS IN HEALTH CARE MARKETING AND HE'S GOING TO
DAZZLE US WITH HEALTH CARE TECH
JARGON.
SO WHILE THEY SPEAK, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO FOLLOW ALONG WITH THE
TRANSCRIPT ON THE SCREEN SO YOU CAN SEE JUST HOW POWERFUL THIS
SERVICE IS.
HEIKO, TAKE US AWAY.
>> AZURE SPEECH SERVICES ARE BUILT WITH VMS RUNNING ON AZURE
HYPERVISORS USING UBUNTU BASED DOCKER CONTAINERS THAT ARE
ORCHESTRATED WITH THE AZURE
KUBERNETES SERVICE.
AZURE SPEECH SERVICES ENABLE A VARIETY OF TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
INCLUDING ASR, NEURAL
TTS, MICROSOFT TRANSLATOR AND RELATED CUSTOM SERVICES.
YOU CAN ACCESS THESE USING YOUR FAVORITE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE,
SUCH AS JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, NODE.JS, C++, OR C# AND OTHERS.
THE BAR HAS BEEN SET.
OKAY.
NOW IT'S YOUR TURN TO GIVE US A BIT OF THIS HEALTH CARE JARGON.
>> MICROSOFT TEAMS CAN PROVIDE EHR INTEGRATION THROUGH ISV
VENDORS INCLUDING INFOR CLOVERLEAF, REDOX AND OTHERS VIA
THE HL7 FHIR STANDARD.
HL7 FHIR IS HIPAA, MARS-E AND GDPR COMPLIANT AND IS BASED ON A
MODERN TECHNOLOGY INCLUDING HTTPS AND RESTFUL
PROTOCOLS AS WELL AS EXTENSIBLE APIs.
THE FHIR OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY MAKES THEIR SOURCE AVAILABLE ON
GITHUB AND THE MICROSOFT TEAMS FHIR IMPLEMENTATION ASK ALSO ALIGNED WITH
PROJECT ARGONAUT AND FOLLOWS THE U.S. CORE PROFILES FOR
ALL THE FHIR RESOURCES IT CONSUMES.
WELL, THAT WAS FUN.
I'M GOING TO CALL THAT A DRAW.
WHILE WE'RE GOING A BIT OVERBOARD, WE UNDERSTAND THIS IS INCREDIBLY
IMPORTANT SO THAT EVERY COMPANY WITH THEIR SPECIFIC JARGON CAN HAVE
ACCURATE TRAN DESCRIPTIONS.
WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT WHERE THIS WORK WILL TAKE US AND OUR FUTURE
AMBITION IS TO ENABLE TRANSCRIPTIONS FOR ANYONE ANYWHERE AT ANY TIME.